HDD Yes, I noticed that F-Secure could be lighter, but only tested it for one hour because the antivirus component always crash, have to do reboots and reboots. Maybe I have not fully uninstalled Avast, so F-Secure won't install correctly.

But, Avast should be lighter because it is more cloud-based than F-Secure that uses BitDefender engine.

Level 27

Much Much better than Avast.
Isn't GUI important?! I don't like buggy Gui... if you search the Avast forum then you will find bugs that are alive since 1 year ago and Avast refused to fix them.Avsat cant even shows you the malicious URL that blocked by real-time web-filtering!! you have to dig through logs to find what was that URL!!( idk if they fix it? )

Level 18

Much Much better than Avast.
Isn't GUI important?! I don't like buggy Gui... if you search the Avast forum then you will find bugs that are alive since 1 year ago and Avast refused to fix them.Avsat cant even shows you the malicious URL that blocked by real-time web-filtering!! you have to dig through logs to find what was that URL!!( idk if they fix it? )

Level 13

In this topic you can see that antivirus software is almost like religions. One of them will say, "This s*cks!" and the other "Take this software!".
None of you know that the Bitdefender engine is the engine with the most critical bugs.But the GUI is of course more important! Okay, fun on the side.
What prevents you from using Microsoft Defender? Hard disk access would of course increase, but AV software is not designed to make your computer faster. If your computer is just too weak for Defender, you need to upgrade it. Sooner or later the moment will come anyway.
Defender is easy to upgrade. You can either add Hard_Configurator (it enables the best-est-est-est cloud protection: SmartScreen) or Dr. Web KATANA if you are a beginner. And yes, support is included with the purchase of Katana (you pay for the support for one year ~5$ but you can uncheck it and save this money if you want).
Just choose one of the two (Avast or F-Secure). I don't care about that. I gave you my recommendation.

Level 18

Now using F-Secure... During updates of the Aquarius Engine (BitDefender?), noticing slowdown of system. Overall, seems light too. Will observe for a week if it becomes totally optimized for my system.

GUI is much faster to load and fancy to the eyes Though less less options to tweak

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